Laura Zhukas
Associate Product Manager
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Zhukas is an Associate Product Manager with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning product, backend engineering, machine learning research, and security, currently driving Cloud & Server initiatives at MongoDB. A University of Waterloo software-engineering-trained biomedical engineer, she pairs hands-on development experience—from Python migrations and PWA builds to data privacy engineering at Tesla—with product leadership across security and digital fleet experiences. She has led technical teams in competitive robotics (second place at ICRA) and translated research prototypes into production features like an NLP security chatbot, demonstrating both technical depth and a knack for shipping user-facing solutions. Based in New York, she brings a pragmatic, multi-domain approach to solving complex problems and an uncommon background that includes intensive wine studies in Paris, reflecting curiosity beyond tech.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Corpus Christi Catholic Secondary SchoolCours Intensif d’œnologie (Intensive Wine Course), Cours Intensif d’œnologie (Intensive Wine Course) at Le Cordon Bleu ParisBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Biomedical Engineering - Software Engineering Option, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Biomedical Engineering - Software Engineering Option at University of Waterloo
English, French, Lithuanian
Github Skills (7)
atlas8
mongodb-atlas8
configurations6
mongodb6
terraform5
terraform-provider4
hashicorp3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
laurazhukas/poster-ai
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
laurazhukas/react-calc
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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